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Jeff Pearlman

Jeff Pearlman is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including SHOWTIME: Magic, Kareem, Riley and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s; SWEETNESS: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton; BOYS WILL BE BOYS: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty; and THE BAD GUYS WON. He lives with his wife, Catherine, and two children, Casey and Emmett, in California.

Jeff Pearlman

Books by Jeff Pearlman

In GUNSLINGER, Jeff Pearlman tells Brett Favre’s story for the first time, charting his unparalleled journey from a rough rural childhood and lackluster high school football career to landing the last scholarship at Southern Mississippi, to a car accident that nearly took his life, and eventually to the NFL and Green Bay, where he restored the Packers to greatness and inspired a fan base as passionate as any in the game. Yet he struggled with demons: addiction, infidelity, the loss of his father, and a fraught, painfully prolonged exit from the game he loved, a game he couldn’t bear to leave.

A fearless, hard-nosed Texan with a 98-mph fastball and a propensity to throw at the heads of opposing hitters, Roger “the Rocket” Clemens won 354 games, an unprecedented seven Cy Young Awards, and two World Series trophies over the course of 24 seasons. But the statistics and hoopla obscured a far darker story --- one of playoff chokes, womanizing (including a long-term affair with a teenage country singer), violent explosions, and steroid use. In THE ROCKET THAT FELL TO EARTH,author Jeff Pearlman reconstructs the pitcher's life to reveal a flawed and troubled man whose rage for baseball immortality took him to superhuman heights before he crashed down to earth.

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Books On Screen

December's Books on Screen roundup includes the feature filmsCrooked House, The Disaster Artist and November Criminals; the made-for-TV movie Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle, along with the season three finale of "Outlander"; and the DVD releases of American Assassin, The Mountain Between Us and Victoria & Abdul.